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The National Youth Service Corps‎(NYSC) on Wednesday begun the provision of free medical services to 5,000 persons in Miango, Bassa Local Government Area, Plateau State.

According to Mrs. Funmi Akin-Moses, its Coordinator in the state, the services are being provided under the scheme’s Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD).

“The scheme is a key component of the NYSC toward ensuring that health care and health education reach the grass root,” Akin-Moses told newsmen said in Miango.

She said that all serving corps personnel in the medical field were involved in the programme to make for a wider reach.

“All serving corps members, who are medical doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other paramedics are to deliver services through diagnosis and treatments; cases that can’t be handled will be referred,” she said.

Akin-Moses said that people were being sensitised on ways to prevent High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Thypoid and other gastrointestinal diseases, and called on rural dwellers to avail themselves of the services.

Mr Daniel Chega, the District Head of Miango, who spoke with our reporter on the outreach, thanked the NYSC for the initiative.

“The initiative is particularly good for the rural dwellers who face various health challenges everyday,” he said.

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